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Category Archives: Book Reviews
Five Lasting Impressions of “The 4-Hour Workweek” as it’s Five-Year Anniversary Approaches
A quick Google search will reveal that Tim Ferriss is quite the controversial character. He’s generally either loved or hated. I personally am in the minority in that I’m square in the middle. Tim has lots of interesting ideas, thoughts, experiments, and experiences. A lot of his ideas are also ridiculously embellished or downright implausible, and he is an endless self promoter. For this post though, we’re going to focus on the positive. It’s crazy to think, but it’s been almost five years since The 4-Hour Workweek was released in April of 2007. I remember seeing it promoted on some … Continue reading
News Flash: Sleep is Important
I recently received an advanced copy of the book The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working by Tony Schwartz, which came out earlier this week. As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t accept many of these books any more because most of them don’t interest me. What sold me on the book, which was fantastic, was the first few sentences on Amazon (plus endorsements from Seth Godin and Tony Hseih don’t hurt either): Schwartz, CEO of the Energy Project, stretches an obvious thesis to the breaking point in his plaint on how the American workplace—theoretically where technology has allowed us to reach … Continue reading
I Just Devoured Rework
Last week 37signals released Rework, their awesome new business book. I’ve long been a fan of theirs – I subscribe to their blog, follow David and Jason on Twitter, watch videos of their presentations at conferences, subscribe to their podcast, and have read their self-published web app book Getting Real many times over. I don’t always agree with the way they do things – just last week I wrote about how our development process differs from theirs – but I really just love their authenticity. Their core business values align with mine. They preach self-funding your business, starting as fast … Continue reading
Boosting and Chunking
A few months ago I received a request to review a new book. For the most part, I’ve stopped accepting books to review, but this one was different. Not only did the author himself email me (as opposed to the typical PR firm), but the topic was actually pretty interesting and something that I haven’t seen covered previously: assuming you work 8 hours and sleep another 8, the premise of the book is that a large part of your success and happiness come from (or don’t come from) the other 8 hours in the day. Hence, The Other 8 Hours: … Continue reading
What Matters Now (or the best free eBook ever)
I’ve had a cold the past few days. I’ve only been able to mentally handle a few hours of work per day. I’ve been spending a lot of time sleeping, reading and watching TV (and by TV I mean a little Hulu, some DVDs, and Sports Center). Lucky for me I’ve been enamored with a new book. More precisely, a free eBook entitled What Matters Now. The book was organized by marketing extraordinaire Seth Godin and can be downloaded on his blog. The book is a collection of 70 essays from some of the very best entrepreneurial minds. The essays … Continue reading
How to Judge Anything You Read
I love to read. Almost every day I read blogs, magazines, and books. Much like Mark Cuban, who claims to read 3 hours per day, I make it a huge priority even on the busiest of days to find some time to read: Most people won’t put in the time to get a knowledge advantage. Sure, there were folks that worked hard at picking up every bit of information that they could, but we were few and far between. To this day, I feel like if I put in enough time consuming all the information available, particularly with the net … Continue reading
Book Review: e-Riches 2.0
A while back I reviewed Internet Riches, Scott Fox’s first book. e-Riches 2.0: Next Generation Marketing Strategies for Making Millions Online is his most recent. With a strong focus on modern web 2.0 marketing tactics, this book has a much broader appeal than just first-time web entrepreneurs (although Scott has a great way of explaining things so that even the least web-savvy can still understand). Just a sampling of the topics: Email marketing RSS marketing Social media/social network marketing Blogging as a marketing tool Twitter marketing Web PR marketing Video marketing Podcasts Webinars PPC Affiliate marketing It’s a surprisingly exhaustive … Continue reading
Your Gut Check Moment. A Book Review of Young Guns
I’ve definitely slowed up on reading business books, but Young Guns: The Fearless Entrepreneur’s Guide to Chasing Your Dreams and Breaking Out on Your Own by Robert Tuchman really caught my eye because it was geared towards young entrepreneurs. I breezed my way through it in about two nights, which is often the sign of a good book (I’m not afraid to put a book down that sucks and never pick it up again…why waste your time right?). I think there are two types of books you should read before diving in to starting a business: at least one general … Continue reading
Productive Napping
In my quest to become healthy, happy, and productive, I’ve become fascinated with sleep over the past few years. I always exercise regularly and for the most part I eat very healthy, but a good nights sleep eluded me for a long time. The problem started in high school where I routinely got less sleep than I needed, and then just sort of continued into college and the workforce. Like most of us, being sleep deprived became the norm. However, since I started working for myself a few years back I’ve been able to experiment with what makes me … Continue reading
Entrepreneurial Book Review Bonanza
This Summer I’ve read five books that I have intended to review on this blog. Other than writing the review for bounce! I’ve managed to neglect the rest. Call it laziness…or better yet call it prioritizing, since book reviews do take some time and lately my time is better spent growing our business. Regardless of the reason, the other four books have been sitting on my desk screaming “review me” for at least the past month. I’ve come to the conclusion that if I haven’t done it already I’m probably not going to. But I figured I owed it to … Continue reading